Emperor Chu looked at Pang Xiong and said, "Pang Xiong, I left you here because I have something for you to do. ”

Pang Xiong arched his hand and said, "Please command Your Majesty." ”

"I want you to go to the Qin Palace, Xiangcheng to recruit a person named Chen Rui, give him a striker, let him die at the hands of the enemy unknowingly, remember, don't do it yourself, don't be blatant, if someone catches the handle, can you do it?" Emperor Chu said.

The battlefield sword has no eyes, and it is not easy to kill a person? But will he be able to obediently go to the battlefield with him? Pang Xiong asked, "What if he doesn't want to go to the battlefield with his ministers?" ”

Emperor Chu looked at him with a faint expression and said, "Disrespect, what do you say?" ”

"Kill on the spot," a flash of realization flashed in Pang Xiong's eyes, what His Majesty wanted was for him to die, a justifiable death, to gag his tongue, so that people couldn't say anything, and it didn't matter how he died.

And this person is naturally the King of Qin, because he is going to the Qin Palace, and His Majesty wants to bother to kill a person like this, it must have nothing to do with the King of Qin.

Emperor Chu nodded and said, "Go down!" ”

"Yes."

Lao Xiangguo is still like that, and he has not changed because of His Majesty's words just now, because the more he knows, the faster he will die, but the more he knows, the more he will manage, the faster he will die.

And His Majesty said it in front of him unabashedly, it was in disguise to say, I trust you, you are the friend of my humerus, I trust you so much, you don't want to let me down.

After Pang Xiong retreated, Emperor Chu walked to the opposite side of Xiao Kong and said, "My Lord Xiangguo! What else do you have planned, tell me about it, and don't sell it. ”

Xiao Kong saluted and said: "Your Majesty's atonement is not that the minister wants to sell Guanzi, but that this war is not trivial, and the minister does not want to affect the hearts of the army and the subjects." ”

Emperor Chu's expression became extremely solemn when he heard this, and he nodded and said, "Yes! Wei and Liang are both big countries whose national strength is not weaker than our Chu State, and this time they suddenly connected, which really caught us off guard, and if our Chu State is not afraid of any of them, but now we have to face two, with our Chu State's current national strength can only withstand it for a while, if it continues for a long time, it will be dangerous! ”

"So my old minister! Now it's up to you to plan. ”

Xiao Kong pondered for a while and said, "The minister has some ideas......

"Then why don't you hurry up?"

Xiao Kong walked to the wall with a brief map, pointed to the place in Hebei in the map, and said, "Zhao State, send an envoy to join forces with Zhao to fight against Wei Liang." ”

"Will Zhao Guoguo and our alliance fight against Wei Liang?" Emperor Chu frowned, he didn't think about it, but from Zhao Guo's point of view, it was the best choice to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, if Wei Liang won, it would also be a miserable victory, and Zhao Guo could take the opportunity to make a profit; If Chu wins, then it is even better, and Zhao can take advantage of Wei Liang's weakness to take their cities without much effort, expand their territory, and expand their national strength.

Just like the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping back then, Bai Qi wiped out all the living forces of Zhao State, if he directly took Handan of Zhao State, Zhao State would die; But it was blocked by Fan Sui, and after a while, King Qin Zhaoxiang failed to take the Zhao capital Handan, because Zhao won a chance to breathe.

At this time, the Zhao State was also a powerful country with no less national strength than theirs, occupying the rich land of Hebei, and conquering a large number of grassland tribes to the west and north.

Of course, to the north of Zhao State, there is also the Yan State that occupies the vast territory of Liaodong and the north of Youyan, the land is vast, but the land is vast and sparsely populated, it is a bitter cold and poor country, and the national strength is much inferior to Wei Chu and other big countries, but the Yan people are good at war, and they cannot be underestimated.

And Yan State is also a big trouble in the north of Zhao State, what if Zhao State takes the opportunity to raise troops when Zhao State starts a war against Wei Liang? Therefore, no matter how you look at it, Zhao Guo is not involved, which is beneficial to the war.

How could Xiao Kong not know what His Majesty was thinking? He said loudly: "Your Majesty, if the Chu State falls, who will perish next?" ”

Emperor Chu suddenly, he only saw the benefits of Zhao, but forgot the harm of Zhao, if Chu died, even if Zhao could make profits, he could take the opportunity to get a large area of rich territory, but so what?

At that time, he will face three strong enemies, no matter how strong Zhao Guo is, he will not be able to defeat the three combined.

You must know that Zhao Yan is the place of death, and there is only a small Goguryeo next to Yan in addition to Zhao State, but with Goguryeo's national strength, there is no need to worry about Yan State at all, except for the land bordering Zhao State, there is basically no border trouble, so if Yan State wants to occupy a strong country, the best choice is Zhao State.

Of course, with the national strength of Zhao, Yan may not be an opponent, but Zhao is contained by Wei in the south and Liang in the west, although the national strength of Yan is much inferior, but the Yan people are brave and good at fighting, if Zhao does not gather the strength of the whole country, it will not be able to destroy Yan, so the surviving Yan State often takes advantage of the entanglement between Zhao and Wei or Liang to profit from Zhao.

However, after Zhao Guo eased up, he would find a way back from Yan Guo, and when Zhao Guo squeezed Yan Guo too hard, Wei State or Liang State would pull Zhao Guo's hind legs, and so on, and the situation was deadlocked.

Just like during the Warring States Period, when the military soldiers of Wei were rampant in the world, Qin pulled it in the west, pulled it in the east, and Chu in the south took a bite, and finally pulled Wei off the altar; When the state of Chu became stronger and stronger for a while, the three kingdoms attacked Chu, and the state of Chu was very uncomfortable; When the national strength of Qi was strong, the five countries were defeated, and the Qi country was almost destroyed.

In this way, they pulled each other for more than two hundred years, and it was not until the rise of the Qin State that the six countries could not fight against each other together, and the world was unified.

And the current situation is not much different from the Warring States Period, the Liang State and the Chu, Wei and Zhao Kingdoms border, the Chu State went north to face the Wei and Liang countries, the Wei State was in the middle of the Liang, Chu and Zhao, and the Zhao State was sandwiched by Wei Liang and Yan State.

It's just that this time, Wei Liang, who has always had a grudge, suddenly formed an alliance and came together to catch Chu off guard.

Emperor Chu frowned and pondered for a while, and said, "Who does Xiangguo think this trip should go to?" ”

"Su Yu," Xiao Kong hesitated for a moment, but still spit out the name.

When Emperor Chu heard this, he directly shook his sleeves and said, "No, change it." ”

Xiao Kong thought of the events of the year, sighed silently, and persuaded: "Diplomatic relations are a major matter related to the luck of the country and the survival of the country. And Su Yu was able to speak well when he was young, and now he is not weaker than Zhang Yi and Su Qin's eloquence, if he goes this trip, it will be the safest. ”

"Except for him, is there no one in my great Chu State who is up to this important task?" Emperor Chu said angrily.

"Your Majesty, this matter is a matter of the survival of the country, please think twice." Xiao Kong bowed and said.

When Emperor Chu heard this, he threw up his sleeves and left, and when he walked to the door, he paused and said, "Tomorrow Su Yu will come to see me," and strode away without looking back.

Xiao Kong shook his head a little helplessly.